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    WITTON ROAD

    Does anybody remember the 'corn' shop on the corner of Witton Road and Manor Road? I had an amazing smell inside probably as a result of stocking all mom manner of feeds and hay etc. My most vivid memory was being in the shop as a ten year old with Mom on Christmas Eve 1959 when the proprietor...
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    ASTON HALL ROAD

    I remember going to a garden party in the grounds of the Rectory in the early 1960's as a teenager. One of the 'attractions' was trying to get a wire loop around a wire configuration without making contact and causing to 'buzz.' Simple pleasures? - it seemed liked high tech then. To the right of...
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    Crossroads programme

    In 1966 (I think it was) as an apprentice gasfitter I went to the BBC Gosta Green studios to fit a gas cooker on the set for 'United.' The fitter and I duly did the job and on the way out a late arriving member of the cast, George Layton, now a renowned writer, producer etc ran into me at the...
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